Re: Freebsd pxeboot problem

From: Nathan Kinkade (nkinkade_at_ub.edu.bz)
Date: 05/24/05

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    Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 12:19:14 -0600
    To: Sunil Sunder Raj <unixtools@hotmail.com>
    
    
    

    On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:52:18PM +0000, Sunil Sunder Raj wrote:
    > Hi,
    > Was trying to install freebsd 5.3 via pxeboot. The Dhcp server leases the
    > Ip address, the tftp server is located fine and the pxeboot file gets
    > downloaded at the client end. But this pxeboot is not getting the proper
    > server path and gateway ip.
    >
    > It is always falling to the default /pxeroot server path (as programmed in
    > the pxe.c file) and don't know where it gets the gateway ip as 192.168.102.1
    >
    > Display I get
    > ========
    > pxe_open: server addr: "This is proper. The Dhcp/Tftp server ip"
    > pxe_open: server path: /pxeroot ----------------------- default server
    > path. This is not what I defined in my dhcpd.conf
    > pxe_open: gateway ip: 192.168.102.1 --------------- Don't know where it got
    > it from. This is not what I defined in my dhcpd.conf
    <snip>

    What is defined in your dhcpd.conf file? I think you may need two
    perameters:

    option root-path "nfsserver:/diskless/root/path/"
    next-server yourserver

    You may not need next-server if it's the same machine as the DHCP
    server.

    Nathan

    
    



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